Data Visualization for People of All Ages

The book is a field guide to visual literacy, born from the author's personal experience working with world-class scholars, engineers, and scientists. By walking through the different ways of showing data-including color, angle, position, and length-you'll learn how charts and graphs truly work so that no visualization is ever a mystery.

List of contents

Series editor foreword. About the author. Welcome! 1 What is data? 2 What is data visualization? 3 Length and height. 4 Size and area. 5 Position. 6 Color for categorical data. 7 Color for numerical data. 8 Color for ordinal data. 9 Shapes and patterns. 10 Making colorblind‑friendly visualizations. 11 Angle. 12 Connections and networks. 13 Visualization whoopsies. 14 Sound and touch. 15 Wrapping up. Appendix 1 – Glossary of words. Appendix 2 – Glossary of graphs. Appendix 3 – Solutions guide. Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index.

Summary

The book is a field guide to visual literacy, born from the author’s personal experience working with world-class scholars, engineers, and scientists. By walking through the different ways of showing data—including color, angle, position, and length—you’ll learn how charts and graphs truly work so that no visualization is ever a mystery.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Organ
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032301006
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230100-6
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: AK Peters Visualization Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Visualization, COMPUTERS / Database Administration & Management, Data capture and analysis, Data Capture & Analysis